--- Tim Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can get a pin out on the 'net to make a Sun to > DB25 cable, then hook your IPX up to a serial > terminal, and it will become the system console. > I've got a null modem cable connected my Pentium75 PC to the SPARC IPX, and I run minicom on Redhat 7.1 in my PC, I send Ctrl+A F got into PROM console.
> You can always net boot your IPX with trivial FTP > and reverse ARP, If you need a hand with this let me > know. > > Tim > I installed rarpd, arp, tftpd, bootparamd using rpm today on Redhat 7.1. I created a /etc/ethers which contains: sparc 08:00:20:1a:2b:3c I added a line in /etc/hosts, which is: 192.168.10.12 sparc I started rarpd by rarpd -a I also issued command arp -f to make sure it reads /etc/ethers Then I issued arp command, it displays: Address HWtpe HWaddress Flags Mask Iface sparc ether 08:00:20:1a:2b:3c CM eth1 Now I boot my sparc IPX and enter serial console, and issue command: ok boot net BUT, I got Boot Device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],c00000 File and args: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet I spend a whole day tried to find out what wrong it is, and read lots of documents in the internet, but I can't find out the problem, Please give a hand to help me out. Thanks a lot. Gavin > >>> Gavinux Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/08/02 > 10:11AM >>> > Hi, all, > I am a newcomer to this mailing list. > I got a sparc IPX recently, it has 48M memory, a > SCSI > harddisk, a floopy, a 10BaseT network interface, > without keyboard, without monitor, without mouse. > I want to install debian-linux on this IPX, How can > I > do it? > I have a Pentium 75 with SCSI interface, maybe it > will > help to install linux. > > Anyone who can drop me a line of how to install it > will be very appreciated! > > It is a big challange for me to do it without > keyboard, monitor, CDROM. :-( > > Thanks. > > Gavin > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
